The boring thread.....

[Dextrous63]

I'm with Michael and advocate candles.  

Apart from that, I've not been around much for a couple of days.  Prepping for Xmas, and more to the point we've had our decorator in to do the kitchen.  Lovely fella, great decorator, but by golly he can talk.  He's here for around 8 hours, of which he does 3-4 hours work and the rest of the time chatting. Funny thing is that the nature of painting/caulking etc means that the between task chats is actually useful in that it allows things to go-off.

[klondike]

Measure your tube length and diameter and check their website to find the exact one. They may give watt equivalent which is likely marked on your tube. I'd guess at 40w fluorescent for a kitchen. There should be a stock check function. Don't expect highly skilled advice from people working in retail either.

They may let you recycle the old tube there too.

[Dextrous63]

Could just be the "choke"

Either way, in this day and age it'll be wiser to get a LED equivalent which will last for the rest of eternity.